My buddy Matt has published a book that will be released next Spring. It’s called “Imaginary Jesus” . He let me take a sneak peak.

I read the entire book on Saturday. It’s awesome! I will try not to copy the Amazon editorial review verbatim. But it really is like no other book you have ever read. It’s a work of art that is bizarre (I mean that in a good way too), laugh-out-loud-funny, entertaining, profound, and convicting all wrapped up in one. Not sure what category it would fall under. You really can’t say its a novel or or a theological book or completely auto-biographical.  Though its written from a very personal pov as Matt himself is the main caratcher on the quest to renounce his misconceptions and discover the real Jesus.

While I found myself rolling on the floor at times, I also found myself being convicted.   Matt took me as a reader to similar places of truth and discover as when I read the profound theolgical works on Christ: ReJesus and The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way.  All three made me want to renounce the imaginary Jesus I have chosen to follow and discover the true one. But even though I really like Alan Hirsch and Eugene Peterson, they can’t hold a candle to Matt’s sense of humor.

Maybe it helps that I know Matt personally and that even some of his personal life adventures were familiar to me.  But I have to think most when they read his book would agree.  I believe it’s the kind of book that anyone would enjoy whether they consider themselves a follower of Jesus or not.  Everyone will be able to identify with crazy views they have of Jesus and be compelled to search for the true Messiah.

Awesome book!  Pre-order yours today!

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